What plain language is not?
What plain language is not? Plain language is not anti-literary, anti-intellectual, unsophisticated, drab, ugly, bland, babyish, or base. This charge of debasing the language is loaded with irony. If anything is anti-literary, drab, and ugly, it’s traditional legal and of- ficial writing—those bastions of inflation and obscurity.
Plain language is not anti-literary, anti-intellectual, unsophisticated, drab, ugly, bland, babyish, or base. This charge of debasing the language is loaded with irony. If anything is anti-literary, drab, and ugly, it’s traditional legal and of- ficial writing—those bastions of inflation and obscurity.
